“Patrick and now Brigit: Celebrating the Most Famous Irish Saints Across the Pond”

Professor Lisabeth C. Buchelt specializes in medieval and nineteenth-century British and Irish literary and cultural studies at the University of Nebraska—Omaha and is the former Albert W. and Helen J. Jefferis Chair of English Literature.  She has published on tenth-century Old English poetry; gospel book design in ninth-century Ireland; early medieval Hiberno-Latin poetry; modern Irish visual arts and animated film; nineteenth-century vampire narratives; and occult imagery in the drama of W.B. Yeats. Her article, “‘Delicate Fantasy’ and ‘Vulgar Reality’: Undermining Romance and Complicating Identity in Bram Stoker’s The Snake’s Pass” won New Hibernia Review’s Roger McHugh Award for Outstanding Article in 2012 and her research on twelfth-century Irish monastic intellectual culture won a fellowship from the National University of Ireland—Galway Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Her latest publication, ““One Beetle Recognizes Another”: translation, transformation, transgression in Cartoon Saloon’s film The Secret of Kells,” is in the essay collection Screening Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama, from Palgrave Macmillan. She is currently at work on a monograph examining the intersection of Irish literary narratives and the Neoplatonic philosophic revival of the twelfth century, as well as a study of animation studio Cartoon Saloon’s Irish Folklore trilogy of films.